A Simple Reflection…

“I have always been considered too ignorant or too stupid to run my own life in my own way. I was, and still am, judged incompetent. Leave it to the expert: do as I am told, and all will be well. It isn’t. It never was and it never will be. The experts are still at it, each with his own little bit of specialized knowledge which he claims gives him the right to direct me along lines which I have known instinctively are wrong. Since experience has taught me to trust myself and distrust the expert, I now declare a state of open revolt. It is a private revolt and owes nothing to any man, group or party. It is strictly Me versus Anyone-you-care-to-mention.”

-Lawrence Morley

A recently discovered quote, and a breath of fresh air…the kind of breath that coughs out the decay of political empire and jolts the synapse, sends the moral and mortal seizure to the bar for a shot of self-awareness and a long draft of this simple reflection:

I define and I do…

And I am…

So, good morning everybody, may all wake restful to realize that in this minute is the beginning of what you choose to undertake, and all the responsibilities contained therein. The “buck” stops with us, with our decisions, and with every decision made by others where we stand silently by, to let them just happen.

Not a lecture to anyone, just an acknowledgment to myself that I been there, done that, and don’t want to do it again.

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Kurt Vonnegut says:

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many things you care about, although most people do not care about them.
You are not alone.

William Burroughs says:

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flowerpot from a high window.

Marshall McLuhan says:

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

Charles Bukowski says:

There was something about New Orleans, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. It let me alone...

Henry Miller says:

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph...

E.M. Forster says:

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.